The telecoupled world: food security, commodities and its environmental and socioeconomic dimensions

• Grant number: 18/08200-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: August 07, 2018
• End date: December 06, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Mateus Batistella
• Grantee: Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva
• Supervisor: James David Anthony Millington
• Host Institution: Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais (NEPAM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: King's College London, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/25892-7 - Food security and land use: the Telecoupling challenge, BP.PD

Abstract

The project "The telecoupled world: food security, commodities and its environmental and socioeconomic dimensions" is intended to be a part of the "Food Security and Land Use: The Telecoupling Challenge" postdoctoral project (FAPESP/number 2015/25892-7). This postdoctoral project is bounded to the FAPESP/Belmont Forum Thematic Project (FAPESP/number 14/50628-9) built by a multinational cooperation known as "Telecoupling Consortium", which consists of four focal countries (Brazil, China, U.K. and USA), and vulnerable spillover countries, such as in Africa. In this international collaboration project, we apply an innovative integrative framework, Telecoupling - socioeconomic and environmental interactions among coupled human and natural systems at different scales over long distances - that can contribute to our knowledge about collateral effects from international trade on food security and land use dynamics. The global food market makes international players intrinsically connected through the flow of commodities, demand, production, and consumption. Local decisions, such as new economic policies or dietary shifts, can foster changes in coupled human-natural systems across long distances. For instance, understanding the causes and effects of these changes is essential for agricultural-export countries, such as Brazil. Since 2000, Brazil has led the expansion of soybean planted area-19 million hectares, or 47.5% of the world's increase. Soybean is among the major crop commodities traded globally. The aim of this international period at the King's College London is to enhance the Ramon's skills on land use modeling, food security issues and to support the work in progress by the UK team conducted by Dr. James Millington of the King's College and leaded by Dr. Charles Godfray of the Oxford University. The project will also explore international and national data (e.g., Brazil, China, Canada, Russia, Germany) on fertilizers to study the spillover effects of the international trade and production of the soybean to the global demand of Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorous and the potential environmental impacts associated.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BICUDO DA SILVA, RAMON FELIPE; BATISTELLA, MATEUS; MORAN, EMILIO; CELIDONIO, OTAVIO LEMOS DE MELO; MILLINGTON, JAMES D. A.. The Soybean Trap: Challenges and Risks for Brazilian Producers. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS, v. 4, FEB 13 2020. (15/25892-7, 14/50628-9, 18/08200-2)

VICTORIA, DANIEL DE CASTRO; DA SILVA, RAMON FELIPE BICUDO; MILLINGTON, JAMES D. A.; KATERINCHUK, VALERI; BATISTELLA, MATEUS. Transport cost to port though Brazilian federal roads network: Dataset for years 20 0 0, 20 05, 2010 and 2017. DATA IN BRIEF, v. 36, JUN 2021. (18/08200-2, 15/25892-7, 14/50628-9)

BICUDO DA SILVA, RAMON FELIPE; BATISTELLA, MATEUS; MILLINGTON, JAMES D. A.; MORAN, EMILIO; MARTINELLI, LUIZ A.; DOU, YUE; LIU, JIANGUO. Three Decades of Changes in Brazilian Municipalities and Their Food Production Systems. LAND, v. 9, n. 11, NOV 2020. (15/25892-7, 14/50628-9, 18/08200-2)

BICUDO DA SILVA, RAMON FELIPE; BATISTELLA, MATEUS; PALMIERI, ROBERTO; DOU, YUE; MILLINGTON, JAMES D. A.. Eco-certification protocols as mechanisms to foster sustainable environmental practices in telecoupled systems. FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS, v. 105, p. 52-63, AUG 2019. (15/25892-7, 14/50628-9, 18/08200-2)

DA SILVA, RAMON FELIPE BICUDO; VINA, ANDRES; MORAN, EMILIO F.; DOU, YUE; BATISTELLA, MATEUS; LIU, JIANGUO. Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 11, n. 1, SEP 20 2021. (14/50628-9, 18/08200-2, 15/25892-7)

DOU, YUE; DA SILVA, RAMON FELIPE BICUDO; BATISTELLA, MATEUS; TORRES, SARA; MORAN, EMILIO; LIU, JIANGUO. Mapping crop producer perceptions: The role of global drivers on local agricultural land use in Brazil. LAND USE POLICY, v. 133, p. 15-pg., 2023-10-01. (18/08200-2, 15/25892-7, 14/50628-9)

DA SILVA, RAMON FELIPE BICUDO; MORAN, EMILIO F.; MILLINGTON, JAMES D. A.; VINA, ANDRES; LIU, JIANGUO. Complex relationships between soybean trade destination and tropical deforestation. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 13, n. 1, p. 11-pg., 2023-07-12. (18/08200-2, 15/25892-7, 14/50628-9)